1. Lighting and Light Effects

3. to the softer English sunlight in Atonement

9. the importance of lighting

11. the light falls in bars across Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) – a metaphor for the way he is trapped within his own life.

15. Lighting can give depth to a scene, while also bringing out texture and detail in setting, decor, and clothing. Patrick Kennedy and Keira Knightley in Atonement

16. qualities of light

18. Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild

25. When hard light is used to illuminate a face, imperfections in the skin stand out – a less than flattering look. Pat Thomson and Barry Otto in Strictly Ballroom

26. the harsh light of Africa illuminates the scene of ambush and murder in The Constant Gardener

27. and is pitiless in its illumination of another scene of murder

28. in contrast the light of London is soft, grey, melancholy

29. three-point lighting

31. The technique uses three lights called the key light , the fill light and the back light .

40. backlight only key + fill + back key light only fill light only key + fill

41. lighting faces

43. key and fill back light creates more depth in the composition, and puts a highlight on her hair

48. Satine glamorous and exciting sincere playing a double game

60. time of day

63. Robbie (James McAvoy) rereads his letters from Cecilia by the light of dawn in France in Atonement .

64. Viola de Lesseps' home in the morning, in Shakespeare in Love

65. and in the early evening

66. the sun goes down in Danny the Champion of the World

67. Magic Hour The hour of sunset, when the lighting is said to have a magical feeling which can be imparted to the film. Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams (1989)

68. Jeremy Irons walks home late at night, in Danny the Champion of the World

70. creating mood and atmosphere

74. no shadows – literally or metaphorically – in the story of The World's Fastest Indian, with Anthony Hopkins

75. the family members in Little Miss Sunshine, on the other hand, face all sorts of problems under the relentlessly blue and sunny sky

76. Billy Elliot faces his problems under a greyer sky.

79. Helen O'Hara, writing of Lars in Empire, suggests that "In the bright light of a more Hollywood sun, such a delicate love story could never have survived."

80. Most films, however, will have many changes of mood within the course of the story.

81. Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing opens with a picnic scene in a bright sunny Tuscan day.

82. but mischief is planned by the villainous Don John (Keanu Reeves) in a dimly lit room.

83. Franco Zeffirelli opens his film of Romeo and Juliet in a brightly lit piazza, where young men quarrel as their hot blood stirs in the summer heat.

84. but the melancholy Romeo appears from shadow, in softer light

85. The light in Finding Neverland is that of a lovely sunny day, reflecting the pleasure that JM Barrie and the Llewellyn-Davies family have in one another's company.

86. But when Barrie (Johnny Depp) goes home to his wife Mary (Rhada Mitchell) and his unhappy marriage, the light is more sombre.

87. He invents wonderful and fantastic stories for the Davies boys to act out. These sequences are lit with a clear, bright, hard light.

88. the uniformity of the light echoes and reinforces the uniformity of the housing in Spider-Man

89. the light in The Truman Show's Seahaven is even, bright, always sunny – what people are supposed to want it to be all the time.

90. except that it is artificial – Truman's home is inside a huge dome and the weather is controlled by a computer program.

93. the flatness of the light and the grey décor powerfully communicate the severe depression of Barbara Fitts (Alison Janney) in American Beauty .

94. the gloom of war is captured in the pinkish-grey light of France in Atonement

96. Russell Crowe as 'John Nash, spy' in A Beautiful Mind

97. Ryan Philippe in Crash

98. behind prison bars in Richard 3

99. styles of lighting

102. Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot

103. Jason Bateman in Juno

105. Don Cheadle in Crash

106. In practice, many films will use both, as these shots from Atonement show. Keira Knightley and Brenda Blethyn, lit naturally Saoirse Ronan, lit pictorially

107. natural pictorial

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110. pictorial natural

111. pictorial

112. natural